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Firefox still doesn't have PWA support (connect.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 years ago by oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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I really wish there was more word from mozilla on this. There are a few electron apps that I'd much rather use a PWA for so I can totally ditch chromium/electron

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[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea, I really don't get what a PWA even is.

[–] oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't really know the technical details, but my mental model is it's like an electron app but your browser is what powers it, and you don't get all the bloat an electron app brings with it

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Why is this news? We had these for over a decade - Firefox had XULRunner, Opera back then had some sort of app thingy, I feel like this comes around every so often and it never really catches on because you could just run the website in the browser anyway - doing it with less browser controls / UI never seems to catch on. Maybe this time it will but...